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A hypothetical view of Saturn (with its moon Titan) with and without rings illustrating co-PI Ben Zuckerman's statement about an imaginary analogue to the TYC 8241 2652 system: "It's as if you took a conventional picture of the planet Saturn today and then came back two years later and found that its rings had disappeared." Gemini image obtained using the Near-Infrared Imager (NIRI) on Gemini North with the Altair adaptive optics system.